Improvement in hotel-registers



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...wwwa En MPETERS, PHOTO-LITHDGRAPHER, WASHXNGTON. D C.

UNITED STATES kPATENT OFFICE oEAELEs L. IIAWEs7` oE TITUsVILLE,PENNSYLVANIA. i

IMPROVEMENT IN HOTEL-REGI'STERS.

Specification forming part'of Letters Patent No. 63,889, dated April 16,1867; ante'ated January 17, 186.7.

To ail whom it may concer-n:

. Beit known that AI, CEAnLEs L. HAWEs, of Titusville, in the county ofCrawford and State of Pennsylvania, have invented ,a new and;Improved-Advertising Hotel-'Register and I do hereby vdeclare thefollotyin'g to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same,

sufficient to enable those skilled in the art to which my inventionappertains to fully understand and use the saine.

` This book for the record of the names of thel guestsin a hotel, andcommonly called a hotel-register, has displayed upon the margins of itspages advertisements andbusiness-eards.

The usual provision is made' 'on the blankruled portion of the pageforthe time and date of arrival, the name and residence of each 0"les I DLOn the upper, outer, and lower margins of each leaf are displayedadvertisements of busl iness-houses, entertainments, railroad orsteamboat cards, and othernotiees Whose insertion is Worth paying for,and are likelr to be interf esting to the guest or those who refer tothe register. This plan affords a Very superior op'-` port'unityofplacing prominently before the traveling public the advertisements ofmercantile houses, manufacturers, professional men,

j'jor railroad agents, and has a special facility for reaching themdirectly.

in the book being simi1ar,the contract with.

the advertising houses extending over a given Inumber of folios,volumes, or time.

Having described my invention, what I cla-im therein as new, and desireto secure lby Letters Patent, is-

A hotel-register book with the 'fmn-rgin of its leaves occupied byadvertisements,.substantially as described.' p CHARLES L. HAWES.

Witnesses CLARK EWING, EDWARD- H. KNIGHT.

